This was the first interstellar object astronomers ever spotted , though there may have been thousands which had gone unnoticed. Scientists caught sight of Oumuamua only when it was already on its way out of the neighborhood, after all. He told the Washington Post that the object is long yet no more than one millimeter thick and that it's so light that sunlight is moving the object out of the... [Full Article...]

NASA estimated that Wall-E is more than a million miles (1.6 million kilometres) past Mars, and Eve is further away at nearly two million miles (3.2 kilometres). The MarCO cubesats will most likely remain orbiting around the sun and will only get farther away from the star as the month continues. The farther they are, the more precisely they need to point their antennas to communicate with Ea... [Full Article...]

This story is developing . According to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies ( GISS ), the global temperature for 2018 was 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the mean global temperature for the years 1951-1980. "Over the next five years there is a one-in-10 chance of one of those years breaking the [1.5C] threshold", Professor Adam Scaife of the Met Office told Reuters of the agency'... [Full Article...]

NASA and SpaceX are now aiming for a March debut of the first capsule from a private company created to fly astronauts to the International Space Station. For the initial SpaceX test flight, the Dragon will depart five days after docking, plunging back into the atmosphere for a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean east of Cape Canaveral. [Full Article...]

In the letter to then Nissan chief executive Carlos Ghosn , Clark said the government would provide "a package of support in areas such as skills, R&D and innovation" that could be worth up to £80m. "While the decision was made on broader business grounds, Nissan commented on the need for us to come together and to resolve the question of our future trading relationship with the EU". [Full Article...]

This photo of Earth and the Lunar farside, maybe our best ever, was taken yesterday by the Chinese Lunar satellite DSLWP-B (Longjiang-2). The Dutch Dwingeloo Radio Telescope in the Netherlands downloaded it at the agonising speed of less than one kilobyte per minute. [Full Article...]

The interior department called its effort important to bolstering United States energy independence. "Confirming him as interior secretary would be a boon to polluters and a colossal disaster for our public lands and endangered species". Bernhardt was a lobbyist at the firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, where his clients included Eni Petroleum, Sempra Energy and the Westlands Water District... [Full Article...]

Earth's northern magnetic pole is moving at an unexpectedly fast rate towards Siberia. The pole has been the friend of navigators for millennia, beckoning compass needles from virtually every point on the planet. The NOAA said Earth's magnetic field changes because of "unpredictable flows in Earth's core". Over the last 780,000 years, fossil records indicate that the poles have moved and swit... [Full Article...]